When Rhoda Groves was born in 1792, in Halifax, North Carolina, United States, her father, Capt. Thomas Howard Groves, was 38 and her mother, Eady Harrod, was 37. She married John Bracken in 1814. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 6 July 1856, in Sumner, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Mitchellville, Sumner, Tennessee, United States.
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English (London): variant of Grove , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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